33 year old nobody leads the league in sacks..

[perrykemp]

Love stories like this.


Lorenzo Alexander continues to get sacks at a shocking rate

Bills outside linebacker Lorenzo Alexander is 33 years old. He’s been in the NFL since 2005, when the Panthers signed him as an undrafted free agent. Heading into this season, after more than a decade in the NFL, he had a grand total of nine sacks in his career.

And now, seven games into this season, he has nine sacks in 2016.

Alexander added yet another sack on Sunday against the Dolphins, meaning he has at least half a sack in every game this season. He’s the first player since Jared Allen in 2011 to get a sack in each of the first seven games of a season. He’s also the first Bill to have a sack in seven straight games since Bruce Smith had nine straight games with a sack in 1996-97.

It’s shocking that Alexander is playing this well because he’s never done it before, and because the Bills weren’t expecting it of him this year. He signed a one-year contract for the veteran minimum in the offseason and thought he’d have to contribute on special teams just to make the roster. If first-round rookie Shaq Lawson hadn’t suffered an injury, Alexander wouldn’t be a starter.

Read the rest here: Lorenzo Alexander continues to get sacks at a shocking rate

 

[NIBGoldenchild]

Lorenzo Alexander was one of my favorite Commanders. He was our best special teamer when he was here, and I was pissed we didn't bring him back. I feel like he played half the positions on the field for us.

 

[skinsscalper]

Lorenzo Alexander was one of my favorite Commanders. He was our best special teamer when he was here, and I was pissed we didn't bring him back. I feel like he played half the positions on the field for us.

Ross Tucker was talking about Alexander's career on the radio the other day and went through all the positions he played just when he was with Ross on the Commanders roster (OL, DL, LB AND TE). I couldn't freaking believe it. And that was just with the Skins! The guy as bounced around the league for over a decade and now he's a big time contributor for a team that may have a puncher's chance in the playoffs. Love to hear stories about these types of guys.

 

[drawandstrike]

Of course idiots at PFT keep posting "time for him to pee in a bottle!" in the comments there.

As if these players aren't already tested multiple times a year.

 

[JoeyBoy718]

Lorenzo Alexander was one of my favorite Commanders. He was our best special teamer when he was here, and I was pissed we didn't bring him back. I feel like he played half the positions on the field for us.

Glad to see the Commanders suffer.

 

[LocimusPrime]

Dang! He's getting it done at 33. I wonder if Harrison works out w him.
I jest I jest. Always glad to see an underdog finally achieve!

 

[DandyDon52]

yeah good story, need to watch a bills game now to check him out.
Just shows, sometimes the guy is on a team but never used right or discovered.
then they get the right chance with right dc or oc and boom they do great.

 

[LocimusPrime]

That dude has 9 sacks and 3 forced fumbles so far this year. Good lord the Cowboys could use him.

 

[dallasdave]

That dude has 9 sacks and 3 forced fumbles so far this year. Good lord the Cowboys could use him.

 

[LocimusPrime]

 

[Common Sense]

That dude has 9 sacks and 3 forced fumbles so far this year. Good lord the Cowboys could use him.

The Marinelli love fest would be out of control if that had happened.